Tag: poet
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Ward
Waking Curtains sweeping, ineluctable fulgent disc’s bombasity, squinting Sweet meat smell like pineapple-fucked pork Nurses fostering instruments in a bowl tray on wheels Big hall without partitions, can tell by the roof, gymnasium maybe, no hoops or icons of vigour Images of consecrants, newly hanged Lime coloured soaps dirty from the last man’s mawley Prints…
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End of Days
Ezekiels battering the Earth Lucifer’s light the second of heaven, flushing night’s cheeks with flowery shelta Riven with age leaking molten ichor Gloops of sun sweat sloughing Great scyphozoa of fire Like a scalding big top Things immovable under universal laws, hardy solids Reduce to bubbling heaps Shattered facets argentify the heel cutting ground Glass…
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Giant
Rhombus of light upon the wall Sconcing sweetened fruitful vial Bulging shadow, twice its true width Source of giants and giant things Human brain and ocular functions
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Conflict
Did not sleep well last night Great din, gungaless, from the parlor Sherston’s mother communing with spirits Young Hamo dead at Gallipoli Did Eliott’s Aeschylus know him? Severely annotated copy of Goodbye To All That Melancholies of a fox-hunting man By war, Men harden Mars the sharpen Bard birther Mary Arden in Angland since Domesday.…
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Time
Minutes courting hours, men counting time Elaborate astronomical devices Saturnian monoliths, becogged, wrought of black iron and gold They say Time is running out Out of where? Frogs who when submerged in boiling water leap Content to languish in water brought slowly to boil Great fire of time burning us away Slow to start, our…
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